Broncos fans complain about pigeon droppings

Peyton Manning might have won his first regular season game as Broncos quarterback, but all was not well at Sports Authority Field on Sunday night.

The problem actually started somewhere above Sports Authority Field, actually. That’s where pigeons were congregating and using the fans sitting below them as target practice. Their ammunition? Feces.

Two of the fans pelted by pigeon droppings spoke to the Coloradoan about their unpleasant experience in the stands on Sunday night. They said that several people sitting in their section were hit and that workers at the stadium told them that it has been an ongoing problem.

“There’s actually a plastic owl,” Jeff Harden, one of the affected fans, said. “I’m sure they set that up there at one point to deter the pigeons. It’s obviously not working. It’s a health issue. There’s people with drinks. There’s open food containers.”

The company responsible for stadium maintainence, Stadium Management Company, released a statement to the paper.

“We strive to ensure that all fans have a positive experience during Broncos games, and their safety and comfort is our No. 1 priority. Unfortunately, outdoor stadiums do sometimes have issues with birds.”

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about unpleasant run-ins with flying animals at football games this season. Fans at a Ravens preseason game had a run in with a bat, sparking a brief fear that they may have been exposed to rabies. No one wound up being infected and there haven’t been any reports of vampires running amok in Charm City, however.

The silver lining for Broncos fans? Getting pooped on by pigeons is far better than if it were the Raiders.

Oh noooo some rich yuppie got pooped on sitting in his corporations field level fifty yard line seats.
Me and some buddies flew from Seattle to Denver a few years ago to watch my favorite team get crushed by the chiefs that and to take in some of the finest gentlmens clubs in the country( shotgun willies anyone). Point is I was disgusted that pretty much from 30 yard line to 30 yard line on both sides of the field were practically empty (they were in a playoff race too) I asked a worker at the stadium about the empty seats and he said most are season tickets bought by companies who give them out to rich friends and clients.
And the broncos wonder why the their home field advantage isn’t what bit once was.
Kind of rambled a bit I know. I think that if by the end of the first quarter the good seats aren’t filled the teams should let the real fans come down from the nosebleed seats. I hate rich fake fans, who use football games as a status symbol.